语言学平时测验题目及答案

Quiz

I. True or False (50%)

1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. ( T )

2. Linguistics studies particular language, not language in general. ( F )

3. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguists think. ( F )

4. In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts

and checked against the observed facts. ( T )

5. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of

the sounds to convey meaning in communication. ( T )

6. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.

( F )

7. English is a typical tone language. ( F )

8. The basic principle of IPA is using a different letter for each distinguishable speech

sound. ( F )

9. Both phonology and phonetics are studies of speech sound. ( T )

10. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a

sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. ( T )

11. The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech;

thus there are still many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not

writing. ( F )

12. The open-class words include prepositions. ( F )

13. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.

( F )

14. By synchrony we mean to study language change and development. ( F )

15. Parole refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a

speech community. ( F )

16. Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.

( T )

17. Animal call systems are not genetically transmitted. ( F )

18. The English spelling exactly represents its pronunciation. ( F )

19. The number of closed class words is stable forever. ( F )

20. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a

sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. ( T )

21. The part of speech of the compound is always determined by the part of speech of

the second element, without exception. ( F )

22. A productive morphological rule can be applied to all words. ( F )

23. Sometimes derivation can apply more than once and it is possible to create

multiple levels of word structure. ( T )

24. Both inflectional morphemes and derivational morphemes are bound morphemes.

( T )

25. The meaning of a compound can be derived from the meanings of its constituent

morphemes. ( F )

II. Multiple Choice Items (50%)

1. Language users can send messages which no one else has ever sent before, which

results from ________of language. ( B )

A. displacement

C. arbitrariness D. universality

as ________.( A )

A. liquids

C. stops D. fricatives B. affricates B. productivity 2. In terms of manner of articulation, the English consonants [1] and [r] are classified

3. The morpheme “-al” in the common word “literal” is a(n) _______.( B )

A. root B. derivational affix

C. inflectional affix D. free morpheme

4. Often referred to as a design feature of language, ________ enables speakers to

produce and understand an infinite number of sentences that they have neither spoken

nor heard before.

( B )

A.duality B.productivity

C.displacement D.arbitrariness

5. ________ phoneticians study speech sounds from the speaker’s point of view.They

study the process of how a speaker uses his/her speech organs to produce

sounds.( C )

A.Articulatory B.Auditory

C.Acoustic D.General

6. Morphemes such as -er, -en, in-are all called ________.( C )

A.free morphemes B.inflectional morphemes

C.affixes D.roots

7. There is a difference between what we know, which is our linguistic competence,

and how we use this knowledge in actual speech production and______, which is our

linguistic performance. ( B )

A. creation B. communication

C. comprehension D. perception

8.The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced ______,respectively. ( A )

A. affricates B. stops

C. velars D. palatals

9.Morphemes which represent such grammatical categories as number, tense, gender, and case are called _______ morphemes. ( D )

A. free B. bound

C. derivational D. inflectional

10. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _______. ( D )

A. prescriptive B. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistics

11. Modern linguistics regards the written language as ______. ( B )

A. primary B. correct C. secondary D. stable

12. A historical study of language is a ______ study of language. ( B )

A. synchronic B. diachronic C. prescriptive D. comparative

13. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between ________ and meaning. ( B )

A. sense B. sounds C. objects D. ideas

14. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in ______. ( B )

A. the place of articulation B. the obstruction of airstream

C. the position of the tongue C. the shape of the lips

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